“Well pleased with the build. I played with some changes to the install directions: used non-lite version of Buster to get things running, then shut off the GUI; had to search for current BBC radio feeds, but once I found them, they installed well. Speaker wires required a mod to get them to stay in the clamp: fold the tinned bit back over the wire. Worked a charm.”
“The instructions are straight forward and easy to follow so I got this going fairly fast for Spotify.
The only thing I'd change with this is adding in some 8mm M2.5 spacers. The Pi is held on with just the GPIO headers and moves easily enough. Even two spacers would stop that anxiety when pluggin in the power or fumbling around the buttons :)”
“Great little kit that turned out to be a power house of small internet radio. And being able to power it from a portable charger I can now get my stations anywhere there is web access. Full recommend it”
“Thisbis my first venture into the raspberry pi world, and it was the perfect opportunity for me as it involved 2 things I really enjoy. Old time radio and computers. Not that I'm a know-it-all when it comes to computers, but I do love to tinker. I've been wanting to try a pi for some time and this kit made it possible.
Between the included instrucrions and searching online, I was able to find everything that I needed to get up and running and set up the way I wanted. Now I've got an internet radio I can control from my phone or laptop and I've got all of my favourite old time radio channels to enjoy, as well!
I'm anxious to try something new. Maybe start with a pi 4B and make a security system, or my own small scale computer setup.
Thank you!”
“When you eventually get this working its a realy nice project, however the instructions are just plain wrong! Please note;
-This only works with Stretch (better with Lite)
-Edit default.m3u directly to insert the correct URLs, then run Setup.sh and the URLs will install, the suggested method in the instructions do not work
-Get to know the web interface, its realy useful and you can run mp3 files from it.
-You will get no support from Pimoroni
Its a great shame that the instructions are so poor as this could be a realy good introduction to Pimoroni products, as it is, I suspect a few of these get binned.”
“This is a neat little kit that definitely delivers on giving you a fun little thing to build, however once I got to the actual software portion, things started going wrong.
First off, the micro-usb to USB-A adapter included with the kit did not seem to function as I could not use my keyboard with the PI Zero board included. I was able to get around this by setting up the image on another Raspberry PI 3 I had lying around with full sized USB-A ports, then turning on the SSH functionality, but it was frustrating to use until I figured all of that out.
Second, I don't think the instructions had been updated recently. The version of Rasbian Lite I was instructed to download referenced broken links, and the one line installer did not seem to get the board to a working state any more. It maybe because the setup process can't be completed through SSH with the session getting interrupted with all the reboots needed to configure the board, but I could not seem to get anything actually playing sound through it outside of the test script.
I think this thing is overall really neat, but I wish I hadn't sent several hours trying to get the board working at all. I'm still going to tinker with it, but this is going to be a slow burn of reading documentation to get it working.”
